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The Right Honourable
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Chambers,
Supreme Court, Hongkong,
31st May, 1911.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies.
I have on many occasions drawn the attention of the Colonia Office to the extreme importance of putting the subject of the execution of British and Colonied Judgments throughout the Empire on a more satisfactory footing than it is at present. The first occasion was at the first Colonial Conference which met in London in 1887 when the general principle that something should be done was approved. The last occasion was when the Colonic Confe- rence met about four years ago. In view of the many important questions which are engaging the Conference now assembled in Londor I hesitated to refer again to the question. But I have recently been in the papers that it is not improbable that many questions of importance though not of first rank may be dealt with by a few selected representatives to report to the Conference at its next meeting. I think therefore it may not be inopportune if I again urge upon the Secretary of State whose special charge is the interests of the Empire how important this question is, how uns (t- tisfactory the present state of the law is, how large an influence for good the solution of it must have upon the commercial relations
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